Most high school teachers in New York City know that academic fraud is practiced in most, if not all the schools. Be it scholarship requirements, easy credits, blended learning, grade inflation, or administrative pressure to pass failing students. The New York Post has an article dealing with the widespread academic fraud practiced in the New York City high schools.
Maspeth high school is just an extreme example of the common practice of academic fraud. If your an untenured teacher and you dare fail too many students, look to be discontinued. For tenured teachers, look for poor observations and a 3020-a termination hearing. It doesn't matter that these students did not deserve to pass, they want you to pass them anyway.
The DOE will claim that they do not tolerate academic fraud but they put intense pressure on school administrators to pass as many students they can or risk negative consequences for the Principal and the school. Hence, academic fraud is encouraged while the DOE looks the other way. No wonder there is a disconnect between the graduation rate and being "college ready" at many of the NYC high schools..
Rather than going into detail of the academic fraud that goes on in the New York City high schools please read my academic fraud articles from my blog. In addition, you can also read my numerous graduation rate articles as well and they will give you a complete understanding how academic fraud is practiced in the New York City high schools.
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The college readiness rate is a poor metric to use. It says that a student has to achieve a 70 math AND a 75 in ELA otherwise they are not college ready.
My school has several students that achieve 85+ on ELA but average a 65-69 in Math. So now they aren't college ready? You know how many people are weak in Math across the U.S. I did poor in math as a student but excelled as a writer. Did great in college, 3.6 GPA. The College readiness metric would say that I wasn't college ready.
The metric also doesnt account for schools with high number of SPED students that need a 55 to pass. What about NYC schools that dont offer regents and uses PBATs?
Which is why Chad, your graduation to college readiness lists you create yearly are inaccurate, the metric is flawed.
all true ...check DW Clinton in Bronx ...happening for years
all true ..happening for years at DW Clinton in Bronx...
All of this may lead to the state and/or federal government taking away mayoral control and overseeing some type of checks and balances. Which is a good thing. (After Bloomberg’s purge of experienced educators, no mayor should have control of the schools.) Many teachers may be scapegoated for not reporting, the UFT will be seen as complicit by everyone - especially when it comes to light that many teachers reached out for help concerning academic fraud and were ignored. The charter school cap will be lifted. These exposes are for solely that purpose. The UFT which is richly funded by us to help and defend us could be the vehicle that puts thousand of us out of work.
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That's not how metrics work, they're based off statistics and the law of large numbers. Your story is a sample size of 1.
How confident are you that 5000 students with the same high school academic profile you have will also end up with a 3.6 college GPA under the same grading standards when you were an undergrad?
Any way, Chaz how can you say Maspeth is an "extreme" example when on your own blog earlier this year you alerted us to the insane academic fraud at MS 224 and Harbor Heights? https://chaz11.blogspot.com/2019/07/schools-still-practicing-academic-fraud.html
@ Bronx
UFT thinks they're funded by us to help themselves. Until he feels he's going to get affected himself, Mulgrew is going to look the other way.
A number of people have told Chad that his lists are inaccurate, but he doesnt seem to care. That's why a number of us dont take it seriously. If you are going to make a data based list, do your due diligence.
My school has a large ENL population. Most of them naturally dont get the 75 score on the ELA regents to be college ready.
According to Chaz we are a bad school because pur college readiness rate is low and we have a decent graduation rate. That's STUPID!
Chad numbers without context is pointless.
Politicians love to attack teachers.
Do union help Teachers. A lot of principles and a lot of teachers ( Black white or Chinese )
Being our students can’t do the work .
I had a lot of students that they said can’t do the work but I showed them the students excelled!
Don’t fall into the trap if you are a teacher do your job.
Yes they came after me for doing my job but it was worth it at the end I’m still a teacher
And my students learned .
Investigate bila
The numbers have context and a graduation rate that is associated with low college ready numbers are a product of a bad school.
Sorry, but 75 on the ELA Regents does not mean you're college ready. Students can write a bunch of gibberish on the ELA Regents and still get a 75 or higher easily. Also, look at how few points you need to get a passing grade on the Algebra Regents. Regents scores should never be a metric to measure college readiness. Your motivation, your will to work hard and your wanting to succeed in life are the true measures.
Chaz cheating goes on in the elementary school level as well. The elementary school teachers are graded on the ELA and Math scores. Teachers point out the answers. Cough out the correct letters. It is just as bad in the lower grades. Even when the students do no work and fail the tests we have to pass them. The problem starts in the beginning. Cheating happens all the time. Why??? Every teacher knows no one is going to save their job--but themselves. So they cheat to make a living. Mikey Mildew, President Wanna Be won't save them. Forget about Marachi Richard... he'll be long gone. We will all be out of jobs if we don't cheat.
I used college ready since principals cannot manipulate the data. Enough said.
Dwarka is long overdue for a serious investigation.
Mulgrew is part of the corruption.
Chaz so all schools with high SPED and ENL populations who don't get a 70 in Math are bad schools. What about growth which is a better indicator of learning? School A moves level 1 students to level 2. School B has only level 3 and 4 students that actually show little growth is better? Besides any data can be manipulated as all of these fraud articles suggest.
Your logic Chaz is crazy! Enough said.
Fraud is very common in W.C.Bryant High School with Dwarka is in charge.
It's all a sham, but what can you do. Chaz points out very good arguments. Try to have some standards and they run you into the ground. Even when you play by the rules, they still try to get you.
It's a lose-lose situation.
Chaz, I would love to see you go with an article stating that the doe should give atrs a choice of say 3 schools to choose from. Whether its Sept. first assignment or otherwise offer 3 schools and let the person choose.
This current atr assignment system is unfair, cruel and unjust and its time for atrs to gain some respect and rights. This system would create so many more happy employees for the system and most important the students will reap the benefits of happy teachers.
Anon 9:48
Excuses, excuses, excuses when the facys are that these schools should not graduate academically underachieving students.
12:31: You read my mind! I totally agree. I was thinking of bringing this up to Amy Arundell. I am at a school that adds a half hour onto my morning commute and an hour or more onto my afternoon commute. That would be a great idea, and preference should go by seniority. Bring some seniority rights back too!
Chaz, I know you mean well, but another example is your principals list every year which is also inaccurate. You post one of the four principal trust related questions and then make sweeping judgements about the principal.
Gene from the UFT averages all four principal trust related questions which is a stronger, more complete and fairer assessment of the principal. Stop being lazy and do your due diligence. Anyone can copy and paste a list.
I realized this when I transferred to a school you deemed the principal ahould be avoided. The principal was demanding, sure. If you were lazy or not about the children you were asked to transfer. That's seems fair to me and unfair so some teachers who were seemingly coasting. Bad principal? Nope!
So Get your shit together Chaz.
@12:31 the only schools with vacanies that we can choose from are the crappy schools you complain about. I'd rather play russian roulette like we do then choose my own hell
Le Barr said at last night’s Executive Board Meeting that teachers must report academic fraud to the UFT in order that another Maspeth like scandal isn’t published. What a hypocrite! They only care that it doesn’t get into the Post. They know that most schools are engaged in academic fraud. Many CLs have notified the UFT and were yes’ed to death and ignored. This is part of the agreement with the CSA - do not go after any sitting principal.
They just updated calendar on doe website. We have the 23rd off now
11:11 AM I think we're in the presence of a miracle. The DOE just did something smart!
Academic fraud? Dumbing down of standards? Hmmm:
1. "Rubrics" were developed as a way to pass more students. "Hey, the student got a low mark on the rubric for vocabulary, but hey, they got high marks for organization!" Pass.
2. Group work began to be pushed because so many students could ride the coat-tails of the 1 or 2 in the group who actually did something.
3. Project-based learning has been pushed as an extension of group work. No more evil rote-learning or 'sitting in rows.' We just had a PD where for an hour we were told schools are racist and evil and not set up for '21st Century Learning" because, you know, ALL jobs of the future will involve 'diverse problem solvers' sitting around and having 'high level discussions.'
4. Ending discipline enforcement because it's racist, you know. This has made many schools like zoos.
5. Constantly changing the 'standards' as a shell game to actually lower them. Now it's all about 'student discussion' which basically amounts to 50% off-task chatting and 50% feel-good emotional garbage. "So how do you feel about that equation, my fine young scholar?"
6. Attacking western civilization and 'white standards' as racist and out-of-touch. You have all heard it: homework is racist. Being on time is racist. 'Eurocentric' education is racist. Math is racist. Etc... They replace it with Mayan math, Afrocentric gobbeldy-gook. New Age whatever, gender-bending, inter-sectional hogwash and social justice brainwashing.
There is more, but you get the point. We are a civilization in decline now. The best fed and clothed people in history are revolting against the last vestiges of tradition and civilization in favor of a John Lennon view "Imagine..." (The song) Do not expect freedom, liberty, capitalism or Western values to exist after 30 or so more years.
Sit your ass down James. NYSED pulled the strings on this one. You are not the self proclaimed messiah you thonk you are.
Everyone knows that the students graduating the NYC public schools are, in general, more"academically unprepared" than ever. Then, eventually these "academically unprepared" students become NYC DoE administrators or US congress people.
I believe there is academic fraud in the majority, if not all, public schools in NYC. People are just demonstrating their lack of integrity, logic and common sense if they think Maspeth HS is one of a kind.
The UFT is corrupt and useless, Dearka is still a Principal.
@5:47 I'm not going to go point by point through your garbage post but the fact that you believe group work leads to "50% off-task chatting and 50% feel-good emotional garbage" just shows you are not a good teacher with no behavioral management. Your teaching practice is bad and you should feel bad. If you represent "western values" (which you don't, you represent screw-ball values) that will disappear in 30 years then good riddance.
@11:20 If you think group work is valuable, you are seriously misguided. One of the main goals in high school is to make student's college ready. How many professors make a big percentage or any percentage of a student's grade based on the discussions he has with others in class. Students need to do more sustained silent reading and writing. You're graded on the work you produce in college, not what you're saying in class. We are not making these students college ready by stressing all this nonsense group work and rich class discussions. Unfortunately, teachers know what their students need but are forbidden to give them what they need in fear of a poor evaluation.
Blaming the UFT for Dwarka is misplaced anger. The UFT can do lots of things but they cannot hire or fire a principal, that is the sole power of the DOE. Also, there's other terrible principals besides Dwarka, quit flooding the message boards.
There is a book called "Quiet, the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain that exposes the myths of how wonderful and beneficial group work is for students.
Forced group work is not beneficial, relies heavily on the students who care about their grade and provides an easy grade for the students who don't care. Very little learning, if any, is completed with group work that could not have been learned and completed by working independently.
Generally, not always, whenever I ask people about their thoughts of group work in school, adults and children who admit to being poor students say they love/loved group work and people who are/were "good" students despise(d) group work. This is not just a coincidence.
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No, the UFT can't hire/fire a principal, but they can be vocal about the principals malfeasance.
Stop protecting the unity machine....they are complicit.
The UFT is complicit for fraud and wrondoing by looking the other way the whole time.
They are useless.
So what does the UFT do? Nothing
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